It would appear that the poor girl had used exceedingly poor judgment by applying a tiger-like face.
Oh dear. That’s truly a crying shame.
RIP Stacey.
No doubt. Show up with all that makeup and that toothy grin? The tiger is probably feeling he is lucky to be alive.
OSHA is on the case...all is well.
Prayers for her husband and family.
That zoo has an enclosure fence without a moat that allows visitors to get extremely close to the tigers.
Horrible. I’ve been to that zoo, it is very nicely done. Small but we have many joyful family memories there. Two very good dates as well.
On our last visit we stopped by the tiger area. The tiger was in a foul mood and roaring by the time we arrived at the exhibit. That roar goes right through you and we were inches away through the glass. I could not imagine approaching one of these things if it was having a partially bad day.
A terrible way to go.
Zoo spokeswoman Naki Carter said Konweiser was preparing a male tiger for a show at the zoo called “Tiger Talk” just before 2 p.m. when the attack happened.
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The tiger was probably fed up and not going to take it any more. I don’t think tigers in the wild do talk shows in the middle of the afternoon.
The story contradicts itself. She was either a) preparing the tiger for a show or b) helping the tiger to breed. I can’t imagine she was doing both at the same time or no wonder the tiger got aggressive.
I’m hoping the make-up in the photo was for some publicity photo and not what she wears to interact with the tiger or I think we can figure out why the attack happened. Maybe the tiger was just LGBT and trying to rid his species of a creepy-looking queer version of his kind.
I saw her picture and said I hope she didn’t get near the tigers wearing that face paint.
RIP
Roofers...convenience sore clerks...tiger experts at zoos...all well known to be dangerous occupations.
convenience *store*!
It’s a publicity photo, dumbass.
It’s a publicity photo, dumbass.
I worked for years in a big city ER and we saw it all...every day.Heart attacks...strokes...cancer...car accidents...slip and fall in the shower...gunshot wounds...stab wounds...drug ODs...burns.Even a guy who had a light bulb stuck up his bum (long story).But I never saw...and never heard anyone else claim to have seen..."mauled by a tiger".
It’s a shame that she has now become an object lesson on what not to do.
Frank Buck and Clyde Beatty seemed to live fairly long lives, without being done in. Maybe because they carried whips and guns, and acted tough and intimidating towards the animals...?
They’d probably be deemed un-PC nowadays, and have protesters picket them, and CNN make propaganda films demonizing them. They’d be as culturally despised by our idiot populace as that dentist-hunter who went big-game hunting in Africa last year.
Maybe she should have considered a career in chartered accountancy
Tiger “expert” my A$$! To a tiger meat is meat!
It didn't work out well at Sea World, either...not too long ago.
Leni